MUTABLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mutableness mean? 

• MUTABLENESS (noun)
  The noun MUTABLENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being capable of mutation

  Familiarity information: MUTABLENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUTABLENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being capable of mutation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

mutability; mutableness

Hypernyms ("mutableness" is a kind of...):

changeability; changeableness (the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mutableness"):

alterability (the quality of being alterable)

vicissitude (mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another))

Antonym:

immutableness (the quality of being incapable of mutation)

Derivation:

mutable (capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature)